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...death of Professor Weiss came as a shock to the staff and students of the Medical School, who remembered his strong personality and boundless energy. At 43 he had established a long record of medical achievements...
...First, that dumb look on the face of the nation comes, not from apathy, but from shock, and as any doctor will tell you (and any of the new First Aiders), shock is extremely serious and must be handled with great delicacy or it may prove fatal, no matter what the cause...
...proud that it has fallen to our lot to smash Hitler's war machine, but we by no means insist on exclusive rights. . . ." U.S. Answer. Maxim Litvinoff's nation, alone among the Allies, had taken the full shock of the Nazi machine. He feared that his nation would be alone again when spring brought a new German attack...
...plan. Its execution would not be so simple. The Dutch had a mobile Army of perhaps 50,000 well-armed white and brown troops, 50,-ooo not so well armed. "Some thousands" of Australian, British and U.S. soldiers were on the island, and probably were held for last-ditch shock attack. Short of artillery, short even of ammunition for the various calibers of Dutch, U.S., British, Swedish, German and Italian rifles, pistols and machine guns, the Dutch ordnance men had made much out of little. They juggled rifle parts to fit their ammunition supply. For armored cars, they walled trucks...
...British shock troops...